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  24 June 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Some will be waiting for Sister Ida at the door of heaven by Pascale Rizk Nairobi (Fides Agency ) – "Sister Ida left us suddenly on Sunday, June 16 shortly before 7 p.m. After praying the vespers together with the community in Nairobi, she felt sick suddenly in the kitchen ...
• 22 June 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Appointment of Bishop of Hangzhou Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - In the context of the dialogue regarding the application of the Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China, on 12 June 2024, the Holy Father appoint ...
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  22 June 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Yang Yongqiang transferred from the diocese of Zhaocun to Hangzhou by appointment of Pope Francis Hangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - Joseph Yang Yongquiang is the new Bishop of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, by appointment of Pope Francis. This is reported in the bulletin of the Vatican Press Office published today, Saturday, ...
• 22 June 2024
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Afghan girls have been without school for a thousand days Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - Afghan girls have not been to school for a thousand days. More than 1,000 days have passed since the Taliban banned secondary education for girls in Afghanistan. Millions of Afghan women and girls ...
• 22 June 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Coadjutor Bishop of Bangassou: “Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you” Bangassou (Agenzia Fides) - From Bozoum to Bangassou. From "simple" missionary to coadjutor bishop. This is what happened to Aurelio Gazzera, who worked for 17 years as a Carmelite missionary in Bozoum, in the north-west ...
• 21 June 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Man lynched after accusation of blasphemy: an "influencer" campaign aims to promote rule of law and peace Madyan (Agenzia Fides) - A violent mob lynched a man accused of insulting the Koran in the hilly town of Madyan, in the Swat district, in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The man was a Pakistani citizen of M ...
• 21 June 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Young people take to the streets against the draft finance law Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Tuko wengi", "We are many" in Swahili. This is the slogan of the protests taking place in various Kenyan cities against the government's draft budget law, which provides for the introduction o ...
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  21 June 2024
  AFRICA/GUINEA - President of the Episcopal Conference. "We are a young and dynamic Church" Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Guinea is a young but at the same time dynamic Church" says Raphaël Balla Guilavogui, Bishop of N'Zérékoré, President of the Episcopal Conference of Guinea, who granted an int ...
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  21 June 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Father Erminio De Santis: "We provide all-round care for hundreds of street children, orphans and young people in need" Ivato (Agenzia Fides) - On June 24, two days before the Malagasy National Day, the school year ends for the students of the "Notre Dame de Clairvaux" center of the Salesian missionaries (SDB). Agenzia Fides spoke to the ...
• 20 June 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - "Through creation we reach the Creator": Caring for the common home on the island of Flores Ruteng (Agenzia Fides) - Promoting respect, protection and love for creation is a way of getting in touch with the Creator, in the spirit of Francis of Assisi, in the spirit of the encyclical "Laudato Sì", said the Pres ...
• 20 June 2024
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of bishop of Ziguinchor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Jean Baptiste Valter Manga, of the clergy of Ziguinchor, until now vice rector of the Notre Dame Major Seminary in Brin and vicar of the parish of ...
• 20 June 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - After explosion in ammunition depot: official report speaks of nine dead and 46 injured N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "The official report speaks of 9 dead and 46 injured, but the number of victims is probably much higher," an observer from N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, where a large arms and ammunition dep ...
• 20 June 2024
  AFRICA/NIGER - Emmanuel's long journey: 33 years of loneliness and hope by Mauro Armanino Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Emmanuel, originally from Maryland County, Liberia, began his long journey when he was only 17 years old. It is 2008, during the first term of President Ellen Johnson Sirlea ...
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  19 June 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Analysis and comments by the Lebanese media on the imminent visit of Cardinal Parolin Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A pastoral visit to a country marked by a stagnant institutional and economic crisis and threatened by the growing risk of an expansion of the conflict that is tearing the Middle East, is how the ...
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  19 June 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Tensions between North and South Korea: Catholics pray for reconciliation and national unity Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Since 1965, the Korean Church has celebrated June 25 as the Day of Prayer for Reconciliation and National Unity. It is a special moment in which the entire Korean Catholic community gathers in pra ...